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Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902
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Theodore Dreiser |
"Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. In this volume, liberally seasoned with period… |
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A Palpable Elysium
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Jonathan Williams |
"If any place of the past century spawned originals like a breeding box, it was Black Mountain College, and among its many illustrious graduates is one Jonathan Williams, poet, publisher, raconteur, … |
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New York Dada, 1915-23
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Francis M. Naumann |
255 p. : 31 cm |
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Taishō chic
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Sharon Minichiello,Kendall H. Brown,Sharon A. Minichiello |
"Catalogue entries on popular songbooks, kimono, and decorative arts further investigate the potent relations between styles and ideologies imported from the West and those newly established as Japan… |
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The art of confession
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Christophár Grobe |
"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, bu… |
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Nicholas Nixon
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Nicholas Nixon |
This book accompanies a comprehensive retrospective based on around 200 photographs by Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947 in Detroit), who has produced one of the most powerful and personal photographic oeuvres… |
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The Southerner's handbook
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Garden & gun |
From the editors of Garden & Gun, the award-winning magazine known as 'The Soul of the South' comes a guidebook to the mastery of every essential Southern skill and handicraft: from how to shuck an o… |
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New Deal art in Virginia
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Anita Price Davis |
"This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia during the Great Depression. It provides an historical overview of each city or town that is home to the artwork, informatio… |
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Bruce Nauman
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Neal Benezra,Bruce Nauman,Anna Dezeuze,Paul Schimmel,Johanna Drucker,Dörte Zbikowski,Ellen Heider,Retro Krüger,Götz Adriani,Kathy Halbreich |
"One of America's most important artists, Bruce Nauman has worked in a dazzling variety of media since the mid-1960s: sculpture, photography, performance, installation art, sound, holography, film, a… |
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The Arts, Popular Culture, and Social Change
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Landon E. Beyer |
"This book argues for a perspective in which the arts are integrated with our daily lives, even as they affect social, political, and educational realities, and our understanding of those realities. … |
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Hamptons bohemia
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Helen A. Harrison |
"For more than two centuries, the Hamptons, a beach resort on the southeastern end of New York's Long Island, have been home to a vibrant community of artists and writers. It was here that Winslow Ho… |
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Engendering culture
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Barbara Melosh |
Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, Engendering Culture demonstrates that the visual and dramatic images of each form contain an underly… |
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Anarchist Modernism
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Allan Antliff |
"The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In Anarchi… |
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Imperishable beauty
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Yvonne J. Markowitz |
Features jewelry pieces from the European Art Nouveau movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing all the major designers and jewelers from this groundbreaking era. |
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Loss within Loss
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Edmund White,N. Y. Alliance for the Arts |
When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, so… |
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